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Happenings To—niszh 1‘.
Japanese Fete at Opera House.
Japanese wedding at Opera House.
Legislative Caucus at Hartford.
Our 813-3 Legislature.
rI‘he Senate meets in Hartford to-day
at 1.80, and the House is to convene to-
morrow. The Couvant makes the pa.
ti-Lotic appeal to the Senate, and espec-
ia-ly to any six of them, to join the
seven who have all along been ready
and an ions to b:eak the dead-lock and
rescue our state from popular cor-
tempt.
If any SI: of the seventeen democrats.
it says, will decide to proceed with
business, or will even take up and face
ire resolutions referring to the pend-
i 1g dispute to the supreme court, then
the Connecticut dead-lock will be end-
ed. In our opinion every one of_the se v-
enleen is mo 'e than one-third of the
opinion that this is the only sensible
and patriotic course to follow. If new
one-third of the senators Wlll vote as at
least one—thid of the opinion of them
all inclines, then the racket is over and
the self-respect of Connecticut is in the
way of restoration.
Nevertheless the stronger probabili-
ties are that an ad journme it of both
houses will take place to some time in
January, in 1802, pending the decision
of the supreme court on the quo war-
ranto case. The senate will wait until
the house meets before fi: ing on the
day of adjournment. Both houses will
probably fix upon the same date. The
senators have a caucus at noon andmay
decide to ask the house to call up the
resolutions declaring the democratic
state officers elected. They are now on
the table of the house.
The Japanese Fete.
A full—dress rehearsal of the Japanese
wedding was had at the Opera House
last evening, under the direction of
Mrs. Cram. The stage is set in gor-
geous and characteristic colors and or-
namentations, and the Bridal Party
and Wedding Tea. form a gay and most
attractive picture. The entertainment
opens at 5 o’clock this afternoon and
continues throughout the evening. It is
to been entertainment of rare novelty
and brilliancy, and it is to be hoped
that the good ladies who have worked
so hard and so zealously, will be re-
warded by a full house.
They’ll Get Together.
Our new Court of Burgesses are ar-
ranging to meet in a social and inform-
al way to the end of better knowing
each other and to discuss any such af—
fairs of state as may conduce to the
growth, prosperity and permanent wel-
fare of the Borough . of Norwalk.
Whether it will be in the nature of a
private meeting at the residence of
some one of the new Court of Burgesses,
a. banquet at the Hotel, or a sort of pub-
lic Reception at the attractive resi-
dence of Warden-elect Kimmy, has not
yet been definitely determined.
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Col. White’s Condirion.
’ Colonel George M. White, assistant
adjutant-general, is criticallv ill at his
home in New Haven. On Sunday night
he appeared to be sinking. but he ral-
lied somewhat yesterday, and at a late
hour last n1ght was alive.
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To Come Back.
The general offices of the New Eng-
land division of the Adams Express 00.,
which were located for many years in
Brldgeport, and which were removed to
Boston a year ago last September, are
shortly to remove back to Bridgeport.
Robbed the Mails.
Herbert Dorman, twenty-Six years
old, a mailing clerk at the Willimantic
postofiice, was arrested yesterday for
robbing the mails. The postofiice au-
thorities suspected for six months that
someone was stealing letters, but could
not discover the thief. InSpector Bario
was called 1n,and Saturday he senta cle-
coy letter containing four marked one-
dollar bills, addressed to a Willimantic
man, The letter failed to reach its
destinatlon and Inspector Bario charged
Dorman withthe theft. Dorman con-
essed, but said it was his first offense.
TERSE TALES OF THE TOWN.
Connection t’S Stale debt is only $2,-
556,121.
Hon. John S. Seymour is at Hart-
ford today.
Mr. Robert Easton of .New York,
spent Sunday with friends in town.
Ground was broken yesterday for the
new Housatonic freight depot at Brldge-
port. ,
A woodcock, perfectly white, was shot
a few days ago by Hiram Dav1s of New
Ca aaan.
Mis. Frank J aycox, of Harlem, N.
Y.. is visiting Mrs. Hinman, on Acade-
my street.
Fred. Smith, the Main street butcher,
had a sever_e;_attack of “ shingles” ('1’)
yesterday.
Treasurer Henry reports a reduction
in Co onecticut’s State debt of $286,402,
the last year.
The case of Fair-child ys. Price is
down for trial in the superior court at
Bridgeport to-day.
The fiftieth anniversary of the birth-
day of the Prince of Wales was quietly
celebrated yesterday.
—- Japanese Napkins of all kinds, at
Pinneo’s. _______ 226-2t
See advertisement of wo.:k wanted.
We know the young man to be atten-
tive and trustworthy.
Miss Josie Northrop, of Stamford,
spent Sunday with Miss Mamie Sco-
field of Academy street.
. Riyerside avenue above the cemetery
18 being w1den'ed so as to conform w1th
the lower portion of the avenue.
Miss Maribn, Prowitt, of Denver,
Colo., is visiting her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. H. M. Prowitt of East avenue.
Rev. H. S. Still, of VVestport, has
received a unanimous call to the Meth-
odist church pastorate in New Milford.
Miss Mabel Ballard, of Main street,
has gone to Haverstraw, N. Y., where
she will spend several weeks for the
benefit of her health.
George Hazard. a conductor on the
Nauga’ruck railroad, died suddenly
while sitting in a chair at his home in
Bridgeport last night.
Private Secretary Halford resumed
his duties at the Executive Mansion
yesterday, having recovered complete-
ly from his late illness.
Out West the drought has been bro-
k en by heavv:raiiis,which have fallen in
Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouii, Minne-
sota, Kansas and Indiana.
Those delicious and. unrivaled “Mill
Pond” oysters came near getting
roasted yesterday in the burning down
of the old Sherwood tide-mill.
Great activity in fitting war ships for
sea continues at the Navy Yard in
Brooklyn. Washington officials say
the work has no special significance.
Miss Mamie Scofield, of Academy
street, is in Stamford, a guest at the
J ones-Elliott wedding, which takes
place at St. John’s Episcopal church
this afternoon.
In a few weeks over tWO-fit’ths of the
distance between New York and New
Haven will have been four-tracked by
the Consolidated road. The work will
then stop for this season.
The forest fire which burned over
250 acres near High Rock Grove Sun-
day was extinguished yesterday by a
force of men who went there from
Waterbury for that purpose.
The remains of Charles Jones arrived
from Vermontlast evening. This morn-
ing they were brought to Jennings’ un-
dertaking rooms and this afternoon
they will be buried in Riverside cemc
tery.
The report of the New York Pres-
bytery’s committee on proposed
changes in the Confession of Faith
advises a revision even more sweeping
than that suggested by the General
Assembly. _ __ __ _
The colored M. E. church on Knight
street are to give a Sunday school con—
cert next week, Wednesday evening,
Nov. 18th, and tickets (15 cents) are to
be offered the good friends about the
village. Give them a helping hand.
By the birth of a bright and. beauti-
ful bov yesterday, to Mr. and Mrs.
John W. Beatty, Mr. J. T. Prowitt be-
comes a grandpa and Mr. E. T. Whit-
ney a great-grandfather. So rolls on
the generations of men.
A banquet will be given at Delmoni-
co’s Wednesday evening, Nov. 25th, by
the N. Y. Society of the Sons of the
Revolution, in commemoration of the
evacuation of New York by the British
one hundred and eight years ago. N or-
walk is expected to help celebrate that
important event.
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Her Twenty Children.
A woman living in Danbury, Mrs.
Josephine Liemer, has given birth to
twenty children in twenty-three years.
She is in perfect health and very vigor-
ouS for a woman of her age, which is
fifty-three years. Of the twenty chil-
dren there were three pairs of twins.
Eleven of the children are still living.
——New line of Japanese Napkins juSt
in, at J. Arthur Pinneo’s. 226-2t
Elcho, J r., the champion Irish setter
of America, died yesterday at Auburn,
Ill. ,
The funeral of Alfred C. Hobbs, of
Bridgeport, the world renowned lock
picker, was held from his late reSIdence
yesterday. '
Mr. Harrison, M. P., is lying in wait
for Timothy Henley. He promises him
such a thrashing that MoDermott’s at-
tempt will pale into inalgnificance.
The cause is the same,insult: 'to Parnell’s
widow.
Residents near the junction of River
and Cross streets desire us to call the
attention of the authorities to a large
Newfoundland dog in the neighbor-
hood, who disturbes them of their
sleep, and is a nuisance.
It is probable that a bakery and con-
fectionery store will soon be started 1n
the store formerly occupied by George
Low, at the corner of Main and School
streets. Mr. Morrison, of Mattewan,
N. Y., will be the proprietor.
Wreckers removed several rails from
the track of the Western and Atlantic
road, last night, near Atlanta, Ga“,
causinga wreck of the regular train
north with about fifty passengers. Sev-
eral of the train crew were hurt, but
none seriously.
the “mention” of Hon. David M.
Read’s name for the Go rernorship,
Speaking of his legislative servmes as
“of a characte.‘ to make him popular
with his party,” and of himself as “a.
man of good sense andshrewd business
discernment.”
Martin B. Waller, a son of ex-Gov.
Waller, of Connecticut, has _been
named as a co-respondent in a su1t for
absolute divorce, which Willlam . H.
Platt has brought, in Brooklyn, agalnst
Minnie T. Platt. She is now 28 years
old and her husband is more than
twenty years older.
Mackie, Corbett and Waters. of
Harvard, who have been under faculty
restrictions and unable to play 1n the
Harvard football eleven, were removed
from probation yesterday. They Wlll
play against Yale at Springfield, and
the hopes of the Harvard men are
greatly raised in consequence.
The Donnellyand Heal boys were tried
last evening before Judge Austin,_for
setting fire to a cart’bwned by Wllllam
Lawlor, on Hallow’cen night. The
parents of the boys agreed to pay Law-
lor the cost of the cart, and also the
cost of the prosecution, and the boys
were lectured and discharged.
The Y. M. C. A. football eleven will
play the Eagle Athletic Club, of Strat-
ford, at the Fair Grounds, \Vednesday
afternoon. As the Stratford eleven is
the only team that has ever scored
against the Y. M. C. A., a great game
may be expected. On Saturday the
Yale freshmen will play the Y. M. C. A.
on the same grounds.
"Lean” Sherwood’s time was up at
the Bridgeport jail yesterday, and af-
ter he was discharged he walked to
Norwalk. “Lean” has not been in the
best of health lately, and by the time
he reached town, he was nearly ex-
hausted. Officer Adams noticing his
condition, procured an order from Se~
lectman Daskam, and a horse and car-
riage from Dann’s stable and took Sher-
wood to the Alms House, where he
now is.
The race between three horses, which
was to have taken place on the Fair
Grounds, next Saturday, for a purse of
$1,750 has fallen through. Secretary
Woodhull. of the Driving Association.
this morning received a letter from
George L. Lall'y, owner of “Parker,
Jr.,” one of the horses entered, in
which he said he could not agree to
the terms which the owner of “Lady
Thompson” proposed, and so the race
would have to be declared off.
Select-man Raymond and Alms House~
keeper Hoyt took Henry J. Titus and
Mrs. Amelia Beers to the Middletown
asylum yesterday. It was expected that
Titus would make trouble for his at-
tendants in getting him to the institu-
tion, but such was not the case, for he
was as docile as a lamb, supposing that
he was going to Middletown for a “day
off.” The Selectman brought back
George ,Louden, of Winnipauk, who is
practically cured, and Mrs. Margaret
Buba, who has been an inmate of the
asylum for the pa st twelve years. Mrs.
Buba was brought back, so as to make
room for Mrs. Beers. She will now be-
come an inmate of the Alms House.
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—Bargains To—‘day.
50 Dozen Ladies Undervests at 43
cents, former price 75 cents.
100 Ladies Fur Trimmed coats will
be sold cheap.
Red Twilled Flannel, all wool, at. 24
cents.
50 dozen Towels, slightly soiled, will
be sold at cost.
30 Rolls of Lowell Carpet just re-
ceived, will be sold cheap.
30 Dozen Ladies all wool Hose will
be sold for 19 cents per pair, former
price 30 cents.
Irish Brussels Carpets at 28 cents per
yard. '
A new line of plush trimmed and din-
ing-rooms chairs. -
Brooks’ Cotton 20 cents per dozen at
Scofield & Hoyt’s, Norwalk and South
Norwalk. .
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—Sperry & Barnes’ Hams 12% cents
at People’s Market. 222
The New Milford Gazette commends}
WHllT MISS SPINSTER SAYS'
That dancing this winter is to be the
favorite recreation of the smart Nor-
walk set.
That “Chicago is now the pivot of
the world,” according to one of its
papers. It is a mistake, however, to
suppose that the world has but one
pivot, it has pivots galore. London
size. Boston has no doubt it is the
pivot on account of its intellect. Paris
thinks it is .the pivot because of its
style. New York sometimes feels "as if
it were a pivot. There are pivots of
one kind or another all over the world,
$1in Norwalk may yet become one of
- em.
That the chrysanthemum is the na-
tional badge of Japan, and has been
jealously cultivated in the flowery land
for many hundreds. of years, indeed,
we read of chrsanthemum shows in
Japan dating back to the reign of the
Emperor Ouda. A. D. 900, a thousand
years ago. And these imperial Chrysan-
themum fetes are continued in Japan
to the present day.
That every woman is interested in
under linen, and I must tell you that
frills on .the corset covers have e1 .
tirely gone out. They now have only
lace with some hand embroidery. An-
other innovaticn is a broad bias fold of
very fine cambric open-worked on the
material, with gushes buttonholed.
through which runs a satin ribbon that
ties in front. Night-dresses have enor—
mous collars of cambric turned back
and edged with lace, while rows of
shirring at the waist give them a little
hape.
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Y. M. c. A. NOTES.
Meeting for meaonly. this evening at
Y. M. C. A. rooms, from 9 to 10 o’clock.
Good singing, short talks. All men are
invited.
The class in vocal music will open to-
me :row, Wednesday evening, at eight
o’clock. All persons wishing to join
should be present.
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The Gilmour Succession.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 10.—Cardina1 Gibbon-
was asked if 1he had received a papal de-
cree appointing Father Charles McCready,
now in charge of Holy Cross parish, New
York, to succeed the late Bishop Gilmour.
The cardinal said he was not aware that
gather McCready’s name had been sent to
ome.
Prisoners Break Jail.
HEMPSTEAD, Tex., Nov. 10,—A11the pris-
oners save one broke jail here. Those out
are William Edwards (colored), twenty-
five years for murder; Tom Kirby, five
years for horse stealing; John Bynum
(colored), assault to murder. A posse is
in pursuit.
Broke the Twisters and Escaped.
BOSTON, Nov. 10.——-John Dwinnell, acou-
ductor, and George Wood, brakeman on
a. freight train on the Boston and Albany
railroad, were arrested charged with
robbing freight cars. Frank M. Greenleai
was also arrested, but broke the twister:
by which he was being led by an officer
and made his escape. Wood and Dwinnell
practically admit their guilt.
The Boston Bank" Scare Over.
BOSTON, Nov. 10.—It is stated that dur-
ing the six days of the run on the Five
Cent Savings bank, $791,176 of the deposits
were withdrawn. Everything is quiet at
the institution now, and the amount 01
withdrawals is not more than the average.
Some of those who withdrew their depos-
its during thedexcitement have again de-
posited their funds with the bank. The
run is now practically over.
9.
01h“! ies About Fleas,
Nothing curious about a flea, eh?
Let us see. Put one under a strong
microscope. What a. transformation!
It seems to be clothed in armor “from
head to foot,” formed of brown, over-
lapping plates, that are so exceeding-
ly tough as to be almost indistructi-
ble. Its head is small and very thin,
with a single black eye on each side,
the tiny optic like sparks of fire. Pu-
get managed to look through the eye
of a flea with his powerful glass, find-
ing that its surface diminished objects
in size while it multiplied them in
number—a. man appearing like an
army of fairies, and the flame of a
candle becoming a thousand tiny
stars. From the shape of its head,
and for other reasons, the flea is sup-
posed to use but one eye at a time.
The offensive weapon of the little
creature is composed of two palpi, or
“ feelers,” two piercers and a tongue.
When it feeds it stands erect, thrust-
ing this sucker into the flesh, and
will eat without intermission if not
disturbed. ‘
The fiea’s manner of breathing is
still undetermined, but it is tnought
to be through two smail holes at the
end of the palpi.—St. Louis Republic.
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The Engagement “,9,
. The girl thathas only a common-
place solitare engagement ring might
just as well have said “No” to the
old question. The girl who tries to
look down on her, with her heart-
shaped hoop of blood-red rubies or‘
shimmering pearls, is an object of
pity, just the same, and the victim of
mistaken ideas, for the proper ring in-
dicative of plighted troth must con-
tain the features of the beloved giver
set beneath a large, clear and perfect-
ly flat diamond, in a frame of small
surrounding emeralds, rubies, or
sapphires.
In exchange for this somewhat
massive fetter the lady gives her
fiance a pencil case of gold or silver,
with a miniature portrait of herself,
set in the end of the case beneath the
large, clear diamond, in a circle of
tiny jewels—N. Y. Sun. M
assumes to be the pivot, because of its
the rays of light scintillating through '
STILL DEFIES THEM.
WOH’t Have a Niel-lei1 Put in.
Claims a Contract. Etc.
A second Dorr war is apparently
upon us. The facts were narrated in
yesterday’s DAILY GAZETTE, of the at-
tempt of the Borough Water Commis-
sioners to put a water meter into the
office of the Hour, and of Mr. Maples’
peremptory refusal to let it be done.
It is now said that open war is de.
clared. Mr. Frank Street, speaking
for the Commissioners, says it shall
go in. Mr. Maples, with equal, if
not a. good ,. deal more positiveness,
declares that it shall not! Then the
Commissioners threaten that if he
does not allow the water consumed to
be measured by their meter, it shall be
shut off and he compelled to go with-
out. To this, Mr. Maples,it is said, re-
torts that the Water Commissioners of
the Borough of Norwalk have made ’a
contract with him to furnish all the
water needed to propel his printing
press motor, at a specified price. That
said specified price he has always paid
when called upon, and it has been ac-
cepted by the Commissioners, and now‘
they have no legal right to interfere
with his free and uninterrupted use of
the same ; certainlv not until after due
and reasonable notice . and at
the expiration of a current year.
To all the above, the Commissioners
reiterate that they are. legally charged
with the duty of arranging rates for
use of the Borough water; that such
rates should be equal, just and uniform
to all the consumers; that to determine
the amount used, the meter is needful,
and knowing their duty, they dare and
will maintain, etc.
Mr. Maples is in no way disconcerted.
He is a well known master of the art of
injunctions. It is understood that his
attorney assures him that in “the eye
of the law,” he is “n aster of the situ-
ation.” Should the Commissioners re-
sort to forcible means to attach their
meter to his motor, or should they at-
tempt to cut him off from its use, the
courts would not hesitate to promptly
restrain them by injunction. There is
another feature of this locally exciting
contest. In any event, a long and
costly law suit is sure to follow any
coercive measures resorted to by the
Water Commissioners. It is true, the
costs will not come out of their individ-
ualipockets, but from the Borough tax-
payers and they will surely be restive,
if not open in their hostility to piling
up legal costs in any such unnecessary
contest. On the other hand, Mr.
Maples enjoys and delights in a law
suit as much as in smoking a fifty cent
cigar, and a suit would not be half as
costly to him, in any event, as to our
Borough; and then there comes in the
element of pecuniary recompense and
restitution to him, in the way of adver-
tising. A spirited and earnestly con-
tested law suit with the Borough Water
Commissioners on this issue, could not
be worth less as an advertisement, than
from five hundred to a thousand dol-
lars. To the Borough it would be a
heavy and a total loss. ~
Strong Sulphur Water.
The New York Sun published on
Sunday the first of its series of foreign
letters from Mark Twain for which it
pavs some $250 per column. As it is
copyrighted, we venture to copy out
the following racy extract :
After my first douche I went to the
chemist’s on the corner, as per instruc-
tions, and asked for half a glass of
Challe water. It comes from a spring
sixteen miles from here.It was furnished
to me, but, perceiving that there was
something the matter with it, I offered
to wait till they could get some that
was fresh, but they said it always smelt
that way. They said that the reason
that this was so much ranker than the
sulphur water of the bath was that this
contained thirty-two times as much sul-
phur as that. It may be true, but 1n
my opinion that water comes from a
cemetery, and not a fresh cemetery,
either. History says that one of the
early Roman generals lost an army
down there somewhere. If he could
come back now I think this water would
help him find it again. However, “I
drink the Challe, and have drunk it
once or twice every day since. I sup-
pose it is all right, but I wish I knew
what was the matter'with those Ro-
mans.
False Alarm.
Burgess Bowe was seen “double
quickin ” downWater street yesterday,
where d. Sloan soon joined in the
race, then came Reporter Thomas with
a hop, skip and a jump, then the Italian
boot-black, and then a half dozen non-
descripts, with no particular business
or interest in the affair, only half crazy
to learn whether it was a dog fight, a
water-pipe burst, or somebody off the
dock. But it was nothing in the world
but Isaac hurrying down to Hubbell’s
office to “make out’ihis quarterly pen-
sion papers, which he had forgotten all
about since the 4th inst.
—Great Bargains in MILLINERY. All
goods at two-thirds their value, at the
Boston store for the next ten 2958?}.
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,“There are many reasons why this
,Wood was first visited. where it was
claimed that his horses had been fed
Operators, and that all trains should
Amusements. »
Says the Chambersburg', Pa.-, News:
“Arlington’s Minstrels, who appeared,
at Rosedale Opera House last evening _
to an appreciative yet critical audience. .
are certainly “in it.” Their comedians ’
are extremely funny, and the vocal se-
lections excellent. The Specialtiesfin-
troduced in part second stand promi-
ne_ntly 1n the foremost line of modern
minstrelsy. The company is without
exception a first-class one. and the pro-
gramme interesting, being rich in nov-
elties and mirth-provoking qualities.”
In speaking of Niobe, which is to ap-
pear at the Opera House Saturday even-
1ng, N 0v. 14th, the N. Y. Recorder says:
play, which was produced last night for
the first time in this city, should make
a good run. It is brimful of humor,
moves at a merry pace, travesties many
popular fancies, is justly satirical and
In some points redolent of true wit.”
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Humane Work.
For some time past complaints have
been made to officer Morehouse, of the
Humane Society, of the character of
the horses that were being brought
into Cranberry Plains for sale and swap-
ping purposes. The indi nant citizens
of that quiet locality fina 1y demanded
that something be done to stop the dis-
graceful condition of things, and officer
Morehouse sent for D. W. Thrall of
Hartford, the general agent of. the
Humane Society. who promptly re-
sponded, and yesterday they visited
that locality. The home of Stephen
by the neighbors during his absence,
he having left them without food for a
week. Two houses were found, one of
which was a mass of warts and ap-
peared to be suffering terribly. Both
horses were promptly shot. The offi—
cers next visited Gershom Fillow’s,
where they found a horse unfit for use,
which was also shot. While the officers
were making their investigation they
were informed by the residents, of the
disgraceful swapping and selling of
these poor, broken down horses. which
were brought"there from outs1de the
state, and sold there on Sunday. The
officers will hereafter keep alook-out
for these parties, and arrest them on
sight. It is also stated that they are in
receipt of complaints from residents
near the Elm Grove store, of an ex-
minister who has. been cruelly treating
a. horse and cow, which they will at
once investigate. ,
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Practice Makes Perfect.
The locomotive drivers on the New
England railroad west of Hartford, af-
ter a few days more practice,bid fair to
solve the problem of two trains going
in opposite directions, passing each
other on a single track; it is true that
so far the result has been smashed lo-
comotives, splintered freight cars, and
broken heads and limbs of trainmen,
but still they persevere, and if constant
trials will make the effort a success,
they seem bound to attain it. .
Seriously, the almost daily report 1n
the newspapers of head on collisions of
freight trains on this road, by which
locomotives and cars are smashed, and
trainmen injured, seems to call for im-
mediate action on the part of our rail-
road commissioners. The fact is that
too many trains are run on this road
with only a single track west of Hart-
ford, to be run with safety,.at any rate,
with such arrangements as now ex1st
for their movement. It seems to out-
siders that the road should be double-
tracked as soon as it can be done, and.
that until the new track is completed,
that the trains should be signaled at
each station by competent telegraph
slow up for such orders when approach-
ing a station. If existing regulatlons
are much longer continued, it is to be
feared that some terrible accident Will
be the result. _
The length of the main line of th1s
road from Boston to Fishkill on the
Hudson river, is 216 miles, of wh1ch
line 134 miles is in this state. The
length of double track on 'the entlre
line is 108 miles, so that a little less
than one-half of the main line 15 double
tracked. ‘
Returned to His Old Home.
Yesterday afternoon Frank Sher-
wood, a shoemaker, employed at
Bridgeport, hired a horse andbuggy at
Gregory’s livery stable, to drive to .the
Silas Tuttle place at Cranberry Blains.
When he arrived at his destination. he
blanketed the horse and. hitched him,
as he supposed. to the fence in front of
the house. When he came out of the
house to start home, sometime later,
the horse was missing. The hitchlng
strap hung to the fence, where it had
been tied, but no trace of the horse
could be found.
Mr. Sherwood and Charles Tuttle
procured another turnout and drove
up Chestnut Hill as far as the Finch
Bros. residence, and then returned to
Norwalk, where Sherwood reported ins
loss, and the police of the neighborlng
towns were notified to look out for “the
horse. .
The horse was a young bay, which
Silas W. Gregory purchased last May
from the “Hub.” Barnes estate, and as
Barnes lived just above the Tuttle
place, Mr. Gregory at once thought
that the horse in» some way had gotten
loose from the fence and wandered up
to its former home. His surmises were
correct, as this morning the horse was
returned from the Barnes place, where
he had gone last evening, and where
he had been taken care of. A young
lady who is stopping at the house said
that she was standing at the front gate,
when a horse with a blanket over him,
came tearing up to the gate and
stopped. She took him to the barn
where he was unharnessed and recog-
nized by some of the men folks as the
horse which had been sold to Mr.
Gregory last spring. Sherwood and
Tuttle had passed the Barnes place in
search of the horse, a short time after
the horse had arrived there, but dld
‘not stop. It is thought that in hitching
the horse to the fence Mr. Sherwood
neglected to properly snap the hitch
line on the bit, and the horse finding
that he was free, started off up the lllll
'ing with home products, such as sugar,
to his old home. - -
SECRETARY BUSK’S REPORT.
l‘his Year’s Increase in Agrlolfltnm
Products Not Less Than $700,000,000,
WASHINGTON. Nov. 10.—Secreta_ry R118
has presented to the president his win
report as secretary of agriculture.‘ Th
report calls attention to the especiall‘
noticeable feature regarding the crop val
ues of the present year. The secretary
estimates the probable increase in 1211'
value of agricultural products for 1891 ove
i890 at not less than $700,000,000. ' ”
Reviewing our exports and imports o
agricultural products, Secretary Rus
states that during the first three mont
of the present fiscal year our exports _i
cereals alone have aggregated in valu
over $76,000,000, adding that the indication
are that the sales abr‘oad of the surplu
from our farms will, during the presen
year, largely exceed those of any previou r
year.
He notes the increase by some $28,000,
in the imports of agricultural product,
during the first ten months under ~th
present law, by comparison with the sam
period during the last year of the old law
but emphasizes the fact that the increas
is confined largely to articles not compete. "
tea, coffee, etc. He notes a decrease in to-
bacco from $17,000,000 to $6,000,000; 3. fall-‘- . .3
lug off in foreign barley of nearly $3,500,-' i
000; in eggs, $1,250,000; in horses a falling '.
off of nearly $1,500,000, and a. gradual (18- ;~
cline in the imports of all live stock. 4
He congratulates the country upon the T-
success attending the practical application
at the department experiment station in .
Kansas of the alcohol process perfected in
the laboratory of the department last year
for the extraction of sugar from sorghum. 7'
“There seems to be no reason,” he says, ?:
“why we should not therefore look for- ‘
ward with confidence to the day when the
$100,000,000 paid by American to foreigg ‘
producers for sugars should be turne . i.
into the pockets of our own people."
TENNESSEE’S‘ REIGN 0F Tumors.
The Situation of Affairs in the State Is '
Becoming Alarming. "
NASHVILLE, Nov. 10.—The situation .of
affairs in Tennessee is becoming alarm-
ing. Suspicious communication is being
held between the east Tennessee miners
and the miners of Kentucky, Alabama - j
and Virginia. The hardy mountaineers
who released the convicts haves worn .
that the governor shall not rebuild the '
stockades, and that if he sends the convicts
back to the mines they will be butchered
in cold blood. .
It has been stated officially that the re-
bellion of the miners, so far as estimated '
has damaged the commercial standing of . .3.
millions
east Tennessee to the amount of q
of dollars. Two town comp" ,
with $50,000,000 capital and located at
Bristol, the other with $100,000,000 capital
and located at Elizabethtown—have re-
fused to enter the state, claiming that the
state, not being able to protect its own
interests, cannot protect the interests of
capital.
Cut the Agents' Heads Ofl’.
ORAN, Algeria, Nov. 10.—The dispute
between the French government and the
sultan of Morocco, in regard to the posses-
sion of the oasis of the Touat, has been
complicated by the fact that the inhabit-
ants of that part of the Sahara have de-
capitated five agents of the sultan sent to
treat with them and to collect tribute. ‘
The French garrison of Tlemceis is en
route to Touat, and will occupy the oasis
in the name of France. The sultan 01’ V
Morocco is said to be very angry at the
massacre of his emissaries and to be deter-
mined to punish the murderers. Should
he take steps to do so, the Moorish troops."
may come into collision with the troops
from Tlemceis.
Aimed to Cripple, but Killed.
SALINAS, Colo., Nov. 10.——A deputy sher-
iff, who was trying to serve a. writ for rob-
bery on a. woman and her three sons, who
travel about the country in a wagon, had
a terrible fight with * them yesterday.
When he hailed the woman and told her
he had come to arrest her for stealing, her
boys opened fire on him, riddling his
clothes with bullets and wounding him
in the arm and leg. The woman seized an
ax and started for him. The sheriff, draw-
ing his revolver, fired. He aimed to crip-
ple her, but the bullet went through her
heart, killing her instantly.
WORLD’S FAIR NOTES.
A proclamation has been issued by Gov, ',
ernor Pattison calling on the citizens .0!
Pennsylvania to join in making the dis-
play at the World’s Columbian exposition
of the state fully worthy of the comma - . z
wealth. All of those who wish to partici-
pate are asked to communicate at their
earliest convenience with Benjamin Whit-
man, the executive commissioner Of the “
World’s fair managers of the state, in . .
order that he may obtain from them what-
ever views they have to offer on the sub-
ject and arrange for suitable space for the
exhibits of the state. -
M. Favette, chief of the ministry of the
French commerce, will probably be the
head commissioner from France to the CO-
lumbian exposition. He is the only ofiii-
cial thoroughly informed about the Chi-
cago fair.
Sir Henry Wood, the British commie ‘ l
sioner to the exposition, who recently
visited Chicago, has made a report to his
government. In concluding his report,
which is exceedingly favorable to the ex-
position, Sir Henry Wood says that he has
no doubt whatever of/its' ultimate success.
Florida’s exposition building will be a
full sized reproduction of Fort Marion,
which was built at St. Augustine in 1620,
and is believed to be the oldest building in .
the United States. It is of' stene and cov-
ers a space of about 150 feet square. The
walls are 20 feet high and 9 feet thicket _
the base. It is a. rectangular structural:
the interior court being about 75 feet ‘
square. Within the court are some twenty—
four rooms. The reproduced structure on '
the fair grounds will'be frame, covered on»
the outside with the . phpspliate rock- of
Florida, to give it the appearance of stone.
Norwalk Chronicler